Life is a Smorgasbord
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Mystical Moon
The mystical moon,
Silent, still, and full,
Awesome in the sky,
Almost unaware,
Its power over
The water, over
Emotions below.
Creating torrid
Swells, energy flows
Through the ebb and tide,
Often reflecting
The sun’s brilliance,
Yet unable to
Embrace—far away.
It shimmers, it shines,
It glimmers, it glows,
Seems never to stay,
Always seems to go,
However leaving
Its everlasting
Effects on my soul.
Red Rose
It’s 5 am, I cannot sleep,
I rolled over, and I said,
How nice it would be to wake up,
And to find you in my bed;
I dream your body makes me feel,
Like a feminine creature,
Wanting to make you feel unreal,
Wanting to love and nurture;
Your caring, attentive nature,
Makes me feel so protected;
To cuddle against your soft skin,
It makes me so reflective;
I desire your sexy kisses,
Your hands on my narrow waist,
I wish that I could sit on you,
For us not to be in haste;
You would send a surge to my heart,
The electricity flows;
To stay that way, and not to part,
And thus the ecstasy grows;
Then to roll back over with you,
To slumber, and then who knows?
When I awake to you again,
I will bloom like a red rose.
Bodacious
When I think of Bodacious, I think of you;
The love and the laughter, the sad and the blue.
What you gave me was real; I’m sorry to go;
The way that you touched me, my heart, and soul.
The way you walk and talk, the feel of your hair;
How could I not wish to always have you there?
You enriched my life, even for a short time;
It’s a pity you cannot always be mine.
Oh how life can be bittersweet, as you know; ;
But a part of me will always love you so.
I’ll miss you and hope to at least hear your voice;
Sadly, in this instance, it is not my choice.
You are an enlightened angel in disguise;
And of course, for me, this was no great surprise.
The first time you touched me and held me so near;
The sensation you gave me was oh so dear.
For awhile you will be my best memory;
The dancing, the kisses, the ecstasy.
You are my Tesoro, my treasure it’s true;
Oh how I enjoyed you, although now I am blue.
But even blue skies sometimes fade into gray;
And then the sun will shine to show a new day.
You created me, your Bodacious, it’s true;
I feel fortunate to have come to know you.
Bodacious will live on as a memory;
In my dreams, Tesoro, you’ll be there with me.
Thank you for turning me into Bodacious;
Tesoro mio, my gracious Andreas.
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About the Book
Life is a Smorgasbord is a racy compilation of the trials, tribulations, trepidation, and soul-searching through separation, divorce, single motherhood, life, and the quest for true love in three parts, which are confessional in nature. Part IV has a more modern approach with storytelling and reflection.
“My favorite of those I read is ‘Let It Out,’ the perfect—it seems to me— poetic expression of expression (honesty does indeed yield clarity). The best argument against Dickinson’s ‘success in circuit lies.’” Al Filreis, Kelly Family Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.
“I can relate to this idea of an artist in their garret hacking away as canned and stereotyped and wrong as that may be, but that’s the work isn’t it, its own reward, the shifting eye of the mind and ear here in the making? Yeah it’s a lonely job, but somebody’s gotta do it, soldier away and watch flowers grow. So thank you for your work! Or as Keats wrote to Reynolds on 2/19/1818... ‘...thus by every germ of spirit sucking the sap from mould ethereal every human might become great, and humanity instead of being a wide heath of furse and briars with here and there a remote oak or pine, would become a grand democracy of forest trees,’” written about “Still Alone.” ‘Denny’ AKA Nicholas Stern, Mentor, University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Weiland Abrams received the Editor’s Choice Awards for her poems “Gray,” “Is it Over” and “Life is Like a Linen Skirt” from Howard Ely, Managing Director, International Library of Poetry.
About the Author
Elizabeth Weiland Abrams graduated from the American Intercontinental University, London, United Kingdom, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She has had 14 years dance training, speaks Italian, sailed the trans- Atlantic, enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and most of all being a mother. She now resides in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.